Wen Lianggong gestured toward Luo Qingchuan and exclaimed, "The Third Young Master’s mind is still the quickest! That Xiuer girl never had any schooling... No, wait, she only had the chance to attend night school after the rebel army took the city. So, how did she become nearsighted before that?"
He Mu, also nervous and excited, rubbed his hands together. "Exactly! Xiuer doesn't even know how to embroider; she used to earn money doing manual labor. How did she end up with nearsightedness?"
Wen Lianggong began pacing in circles again. "Xiuer is an orphan; no one can say for sure how old she is, but the calculation is close enough—it lines up with the time Princess Zhuyue was sent off for a marriage alliance!"
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